Senior Turbomachinery Engineer
Antares•Los Angeles, CA
•Onsite
About The Position
As a member of the R&D team, you will be Antares’ expert on turbomachinery. You will take ownership of the entire closed brayton power conversion system, performing detailed mechanical design, rotordynamic/structural analysis, and test. You will be directly responsible for ensuring multiple year system reliability and manufacturability. The ideal candidate will have experience with full system thermodynamic balances, CAD, the ANSYS suite, and fatigue/fracture analysis. Additionally they will have designed, instrumented, and conducted tests that validate their system.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or physics
- 5+ years of experience in the design of turbomachinery
- Experience designing assemblies and test fixtures using CAD systems
Nice To Haves
- Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, enthusiasm for problem solving, and desire to optimize modern nuclear design and operation.
- 5+ years of professional experience in the mechanical or aerospace engineering fields.
- Demonstrable experience designing, building, testing and troubleshooting mechanical systems.
- Broad knowledge of instrumentation and sensors, with knowledge on tradeoffs and methods to integrate them reliably into designs / test setups
- Strong understanding of pump hydrodynamic/aerodynamic design and fundamentals of turbomachinery (mechanical design, and hands on experience with turbomachinery hardware build)
- Experience using LabVIEW, SIMULINK, or other test software
- Demonstrated track record of high impact / ROI contributions
- Strong project management skills and effective communication of technical concepts across multi-disciplinary teams.
- Hands-on experience with fluid, gas, or high voltage systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, analyze, build, and test turbopumps for the Antares reactors
- Own critical turbomachinery components and be responsible for every aspect of the turbomachinery design, demonstrate ownership and work in close collaboration with test, controls, and quality engineers
- Ensure that detailed mechanical analysis is performed on all the turbopump components/systems. Review drawings and make sure that selected designs meet the required standards for life and reliability targets
- Create test schematics and CAD models of proposed test setups/facilities
- Devise accurate and correct models, develop new methodologies and first principles-based tools to determine turbopump performance and operability
- Build test schedules and ensure alignment with relevant development and business needs
- Support both component and assembly testing. Be involved with defining the test configuration, the test process/execution and review the results to confirm
- Lead the resolution of issues encountered with the turbopump during development/qualification testing
- Support ongoing design improvements to turbopump assemblies and/or sub systems including manufacturing improvements to reduce cost and lead time of components
- Participate in root cause investigations that arise in test and field operation, implement corrective actions to prevent repeat failures
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
